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## Setting Your Preferences: Introduction

PC-DMIS allows you to set personal preferences that tailor the form and function of PC-DMIS to meet individual specifications. Using this chapter, you will be able to control output format, screen graphics, machine parameters, and other options.

The main topics in this chapter include:

- Selecting Setup Options

- Modifying Report and Motion Parameters

- Setting Up the Edit Window

- Setting Up the Probe Readouts Window

- Setting Up Multiple Arms

- Defining the Rotary Table

- Setting Up Probe Changer Options

- Managing Multiple Probe Changers

- Loading the Active Probe

- Examples of Working with Single and Multiple Probe Changers

- Setting Up the Machine Interface

- Compensating for Temperature

- Using Simplified Temperature Compensation

- Temperature Gage

- Editing Part Materials and Coefficients

- Specifying Search Paths

- Changing OpenGL Options

- Using the Measurement Strategy Editor

- Setting Up Sensor Mapping

- Setting Import Options

- Understanding File Locations

- Understanding Data Files

The following paragraphs describe the various system options and their functions.

A Note on Storing Settings for Multiple Users

Switching Between Machine Profiles